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HPC goes to SPE ACCE
CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan fields initial reports from two CT staffers about the recent — and growing — Society of Plastics Engineers' Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition.
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At Composites Europe: A lot of car hoods
As with most composites trades shows and events these days, automotive applications are getting more attention.
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In America's Cup Finals, rivals are catching up
It's early yet, but challenger New Zealand is beating the Americans at their own game.
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Tailored Fiber Placement: Besting metal in volume production
Affordable automated production of highly optimized preforms and parts.
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Paris Air Show 2013: A century of aircraft progress
Torrential rains couldn’t dampen the spirit of innovation or stop the flood of business aerospace announcements.
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Tooling up for larger launch vehicles
NASA and Janicki Industries demonstrate composites’ cost advantage in tooling for fabrication of 10m/33 ft diameter payload fairing for next-generation launch vehicle.
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Optimization software improves small, low-cost satellite design
Ames Research Center’s (Moffett Field, Calif.) designs and builds a low-cost, small spacecraft on a quick turnaround, using a modular strategy based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts and with the aid of several design software packages and finite element solvers.
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The Double-Notch Shear test specimen for composite materials
Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) recommends best practices for double-notch shear test specimens.
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Wanted: Big thinkers and risk takers
Quickstep Composites (Dayton, Ohio) president and independent consultant Dale Brosius challenges the auto industry to think big and take risks in composites R&D.
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HPC's 20th Anniversary Issue
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan looks back two decades to HPC's beginnings, on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary Issue.
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Whither the marine market?
The marine market was hard hit by the recession, and it's coming back slowly, but is the market big enough to return it to its past glory?
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